For the development process of global world history, every time a major country weakens or disintegrates, it will greatly affect the global pattern. These huge effects can directly impact and disrupt the division of power and patterns around the world. Under the influence of this shock change, some countries will decline and become losers. There are also some countries that will take advantage of the momentum to rise and become new powers.
The Soviet Union was once a superpower in the global landscape that could compete with the United States, but in the end it could not escape the development of history, and it collapsed after decline. The collapse of the Soviet Union brought the greatest benefit to the country below, which not only used this disintegration to reclaim its former territory, but also took advantage of the situation to rise to become the world's second largest superpower.
And the world's second rising superpower is China. In the global landscape at that time, China, like the Soviet Union, belonged to the same socialist system and was a socialist system in force. When the Soviet Union disintegrated, many people thought that our country would suffer great losses in this disintegration of the Soviet Union.
In the global pattern system at that time, the Soviet Union was the largest and most powerful socialist country in the world. The collapse of the Soviet Union wreaked havoc on the entire socialist system. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were only five socialist countries left in the global system, four of which were small and weak countries, and China was only recently established at that time, and its overall strength was also very weak. All this is very detrimental to the development and growth of the socialist system.
Therefore, in the global reflection and commentary, the disintegration of the Soviet Union is a very serious trauma for our country. However, the truth is the opposite. In the heyday of the Soviet Union, the overall development of our country was severely restricted and isolated. Especially during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, China not only had to face the direct isolation of Western countries, but also faced the suppression of the Soviet Union in all aspects.
Throughout the sixties and seventies, china's relations with the Soviet Union were tense, especially in the late sixties and early seventies, when the Soviet Union once increased its forces on China's borders, and China also regarded the Soviet Union as its primary enemy. The 1979 war of our country's self-defense against Vietnam was a war that the Soviet Union supported behind Vietnam.
Therefore, during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the overall development of our country was always suppressed and isolated by the Soviet Union, which was also one of the important reasons for the weakness of our national strength at that time. Although the collapse of the Soviet Union caused great losses to the socialist system in the global pattern of relations, it brought two huge benefits to our country, and our country also took this opportunity to develop and take off, becoming the world's second largest superpower.
1. Our country has recovered a lot of actual territory
In the period of modern power, the Soviet Union seized millions of square kilometers of China's foreign northwest and outer northeast. At that time, the Soviet Union's national strength was strong, and new China had just been established, and its national strength was poor and weak, the people were in difficulty, and its comprehensive strength was inferior to that of the Soviet Union. Our hopes of recovering those territories from the Soviet Union are very slim.
In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, the otherwise powerful Soviet Union was divided into 15 countries, and the Russian Federation became the only successor state of the Soviet Union. The weak and small countries in Central Asia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, have successively returned the 4,000 square kilometers of territory they have occupied to our country for the sake of national development.
At that time, the Russian Federation, as the only successor state of the Soviet Union, also fell into difficulties because of its own development, and actively took the initiative to show goodwill to our country and returned four pieces of land in our country, including the black blind island. Therefore, the first biggest benefit that our country received after the collapse of the Soviet Union was the return of the territory that was once occupied by the Soviet Union.
2. China has taken off and developed into a superpower
Between 1947 and 1991, there was a comprehensive series of fierce competitions between the capitalist camp, led mainly by the United States, and the socialist camp, which was mainly led by the Soviet Union. These fierce struggles have led to overall instability in the global situation. Under such circumstances, because of its presence in the socialist system, it is difficult for our country to develop and improve relations with Western countries.
However, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the united States also suffered a loss of strength in the Cold War, and the overall global situation returned to a state of stability and peace. Taking advantage of this time, China has vigorously developed, implemented the policy of reform and opening up, and concentrated its efforts on developing the economy and the military. And seized the golden 40 years of rapid development period, China's national strength has also directly developed from the former poor and weak and poor to the world's second largest superpower.
Conclusion: Therefore, the disintegration of the Soviet Union has a very important role in promoting the development and take-off of our country. If the Soviet Union had not disintegrated at that time, our country would have been in an environment of fierce competition between the two great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union, completely unable to obtain the opportunity for peaceful development, and might even have become a victim of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union